Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Measuring for Cookies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students use math and physics skills to follow directions when making cookies. This is a very detailed and structured lesson!
Unit Plan
TES Global

Tes: Advice for Directing Your School Play Using a Midsummer Night's Dream

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Royal Shakespear Company teacher resource focuses on how to direct A Midsummer Night's Dream as a school play. It offers advice and provides a short summary of each scene followed by questions...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: A "How To" Lesson for the Gingerbread Loose in the School

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learning to follow directions is an essential skill needed for success in school as well as in life. Through participation in this lesson, kindergartners will learn the importance of following directions in a specified sequence. Included...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: 2.2 Vectors, Scalars, and Coordinate Systems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Define and distinguish between scalar and vector quantities and Assign a coordinate system for a scenario involving one-dimensional motion.
Unit Plan
C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Maps and Geography

For Teachers 1st
A comprehensive learning module on maps that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Students learn about map symbols, cardinal directions, and...
Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Inspector Detector

For Students 3rd - 8th
This challenge requires you to design and build a device that can pass above a surface and detect magnetic fields.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Headphone Helper

For Students 3rd - 8th
This challenge is to design and build a headphone system to hear a musical instrument (real or homemade) better. Can you do it?
Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Kicking Machine

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this challenge, you will build a machine that can send a ball (golf or ping pong) at least 12 inches.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Rubber Band Car

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take this challenge to design and build a rubber band-powered car and watch it go.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Kinetic Sculpture

For Students 3rd - 8th
Try your hand at designing and building an 18-inch tower that can support a tennis ball while a fan blows on it.
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Other

Sorico: Describing and Comparing Measurable Attributes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The following unit can be used to teach measurable attributes. Students will describe and compare two objects with a measurable concept in common using direct comparison. Included are necessary vocabulary, a scavenger hunt, and links to...
Website
National Archives (UK)

The National Archives: Living in the British Empire: India

For Students 9th - 10th
Was British rule in India a success or failure? Examine the consequences of British colonization of India in the following article that lays out the history and pros and cons of British rule. Primary source documents include a telegram...
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Other

The Mudcat Cafe: Gourd Rattlers

For Students 3rd - 5th
What is a calabash? Use this website and find out what it is but also how to make it. This gourd rattler can be constructed with the easy to follow directions.
Activity
NASA

Nasa: World Map Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the National Aeornautics and Space Administration provides an interesting activity with a relief map and its correlation with space. "Wouldn't it be fun to make your own miniature world, complete with mountains, valleys,...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Bathtime Helper

For Students Pre-K - 1st
During this interactive game based on the PBS Kids series Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Daniel Tiger assists his mom with giving his baby sister a bath. [Requires Flash Player].
eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Confronting the National Debt: Aftermath of the French and Indian War

For Students 11th - 12th
This section of a chapter on "Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests" discusses the status of Great Britain's North American colonies in the years directly following the French and Indian War, describes the size and scope of the British...
Article
Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: Mini Light Beam Receiver

For Students 9th - 10th
A very simple device to convert light into sound can be made by wiring a solar cell directly to headphones (or an earpiece). The solar cell converts light into electricity and the headphones convert electricity into sound. The limitation...
Activity
US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Measuring P H Experiment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is an activity that deals with acid rain. "This experiment will illustrate how to measure the approximate pH of chemicals in water using a pH indicator." It is easy to follow the comprehensive set of directions.
Unit Plan
University of Sydney (Australia)

The Write Site: Overview: Using Quoting & Paraphrasing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module explains the components of academic writing. The module includes the following topics: original material, paraphrased content, summarized information, and direct quotations.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Olympics 2004 Treasure Hunt

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson is centered around an Olympics 2004 Treasure Hunt designed to give students an opportunity to learn about the history of the Olympic games and to generate interest in the modern Olympic games. Students are able to see the...
Handout
State Library of North Carolina

N Cpedia: Catawba River

For Students 9th - 10th
Catawba River rises in the Blue Ridge Mountains of McDowell County, approximately 20 miles east of Asheville, flowing east-northeast above Hickory until turning southward into the massive Lake Norman Reservoir. It then continues south,...
Website
California Institute of Technology

Spitzer Science Center: Dead Star's Layers

For Students 9th - 10th
Following the title, "Lighting up a Dead Star's Layers" this site examines an image containing the exploded remains of a star known as Cassiopeia A. The information, while brief, directly addresses the image provided.
Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Detente

For Students 9th - 10th
The establishment of detente following the Cuban Missile Crisis was a period of improved relations, cooperation, and an easing of tensions between the two superpowers of the East and the West and a temporary 'thaw' in US-Soviet relations.

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